Fab Mums

The Natural History Museum has always been one of my favourite museums and more so since I have been a mum. Now that my son is at school age he can really take part in the fantastic family activities suggested by the museum for children in his age group. As well as the hand-on activities, [...]

The Tate Modern is one of our favourite places, whenever we are in London we wander down to the South Bank and have an early morning visit so we avoid the really busy time. In view of an imminent trip to London I was looking around the Tate Modern website for any interesting exhibitions and [...]

What a fantastic setting for an ice rink, the east lawn of the Natural History Museum is the ideal place for that magical atmosphere of winter fun. The Ice Rink will be open every day between 5th of November 2009 and 17th of January 2010 with the exception of Christmas Day. Tickets are already on [...]

I have recently come across to the brilliant Kids in Museums organisation that promotes family friendly visits to museums and art galleries across the country. The organisation was founded after writer Dea Birkett’s son was thrown out of the Aztec’s exhibition at the Royal Academy for shouting “monster” at an exhibit. A fair reaction one [...]

The Science Museum in South Kensington is one of my favourites to visit with kids. I have been taking my son there since he was 2, but now that he has reached the age where he can experience and most importantly understand the interactive exhibits our visits to the museum are much more fun. When [...]

The Doll’s House collection at the Museum of Childhood is one of the largest British Collections not in private hands. The earliest houses were built by carpenters who were commissioned to make exact miniatures of existing houses of the time. This is before toy making and these houses were actually built for the lady of [...]

 
My last post about the Museum of Childhood consisted only of a few photos from a lovely afternoon we spent there with some friends who live nearby but I didn’t give enough information about this great museum with such colourful history.
I recently discovered the original iron structure was moved from West London to Bethnal [...]